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Waking the Dragon: The Rise of Android in China

admin — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:55:42 +0000

Clerks in more than a dozen bank branches on HuaQiang Road and ZhenHua Road are busy refilling cash into their ATMs. In the next 5 hours or so, those bank clerks and ATMs will be responsible for hundreds of millions of Yuan in cash transactions. Yes, cash and stock products are the rules of transaction ...Read the Rest

Latest Version of BSD Certification DVD Available

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:54:39 +0000

The latest version of the BSD Certification Study DVD is now available. Besides being a handy study reference, the DVD is a useful tool as it contains the latest versions of the 4 BSDs plus their documentation. Continue reading…

Securing Android LVL Applications

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:46:15 +0000

The Android Market licensing service is a powerful tool for protecting your applications against unauthorized use. The License Verification Library (LVL) is a key component. A determined attacker who’s willing to disassemble and reassemble code can eventually hack around the service; but application developers can make the hackers’ task immensely more difficult, to the point ...Read the Rest

Enter the World of Multithreading in bada

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:31:15 +0000

We all are aware of the advantages offered by multithreading. It offers us different implications under different scenarios. You can gain increased performance in your application by giving it the power of multithreading. Say for example that you wish to create an application that shows photos that are downloaded from various social sites, but you ...Read the Rest

Free TI Teaching ROMs for MSP430, MATLAB, C6000, C5000, C2000

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:24:17 +0000

TI offers a number of resources to support teaching activities in academic institutions. Our Teaching Materials are available for download or your can request a copy. You can request a copy of the Teaching ROMs by completing our online request form and they will be sent to you for free of charge. The download function ...Read the Rest

Why I Like Building With Modular Linux Gadgets

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:15:56 +0000

With all the talk about iPhone vs. Android wars, it’s easy to forget that Linux was once discussed as a popular platform for rapid prototyping gadget development. The more projects I do with the BeagleBoard, the more emails I seem to get from fellow engineers and programmers – many who work at embedded systems companies ...Read the Rest

Linpus to Showcase Its Linpus Lite for MeeGo™ Netbook Edition

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:13:54 +0000

Linpus, a leader in the field of open source operating system solutions in the consumer space, announced today further enhancements to its Meego-based version of its Linpus Lite, which is optimized for the Intel® Atom™ processor. Linpus Lite is their highly successful consumer device operating system specially designed to deliver a better mobile Internet and ...Read the Rest

Rise in Use of EUPL for Publishing Open Source Software

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:59:04 +0000

The European Union’s open source licence, (European Union Public Licence, EUPL) is being used more and more. A third of the projects available on the European Commission’s software development site, the OSOR Forge, 47 out of 147 projects, are published using the EUPL. On Sourceforge, a commercial venture for open source software development based in ...Read the Rest

Political Party Moving to a Complete Open Source Desktop

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:57:05 +0000

Ecolo, a green political party in Belgium, is planning to complete its move to a complete open source desktop system by the end of 2011. On the 220 workstations in its main office, it will gradually replace the underlying operating system to Ubuntu Linux, says Sebastien Bollingh, the party’s ICT manager. Ecolo decided to increase ...Read the Rest

International Team Developing Open Source Hospital Information System

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:49:06 +0000

An international team of software developers specialising in medical systems is working on a hospital information system. Earlier this month on the OSOR Forge, the project began soliciting others to join the team. “If you are willing to participate of this great community, there are plenty of things to be done, from translation, quality control, ...Read the Rest

Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:27:12 +0000

Scary news from California’s Contra Costa County — school officials there have reportedly decided to track some preschoolers with RFID chips, thanks to a federal grant supplying the funding. According to a story from the Associated Press, the students will wear a jersey at school that has the RFID tag attached. The tag will track ...Read the Rest

Monitoring Android Events

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:08:05 +0000

What if some of those buttons are only supposed to be available under specific device conditions? Examples include providing a button only when a connection to a remote Bluetooth peripheral has been established or some other specific device condition. The “easy solution” is to check, or poll, for this condition periodically in addition to checking ...Read the Rest

Government Use of ODF Would Help Break Vendor Lock-in

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:56:46 +0000

A UK government’s decision to use ODF (Open Document Format) for its electronic documents, would help public administrations overcome vendor lock-in for office applications, says Liam Maxwell, councillor for Royal Borough of Windsor & Maidenhead. He says the move will start the process to the billions of savings that British government needs to find in ...Read the Rest

Fennec Alpha Released for Android and Nokia N900

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:47:34 +0000

The Alpha release of the next major version of Fennec is now available for Android and Nokia N900 users to download and test. Fennec (codename for Firefox mobile) is the first mobile browser to offer add-ons and is built on the same technology that powers desktop Firefox. The latest version of Fennec builds on the ...Read the Rest

Andalusia Government Studying Switch to Open Source Desktop

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:08:17 +0000

The government of Andalusia, one of Spain’s autonomous regions, is preparing to use a complete open source desktop environment. The analysis of requirements of such a desktop system is nearly completed, the next step will be a few small scale tests, according to a presentation by José Félix Ontañón, one of the software developers involved. ...Read the Rest

Red Hat and EyeOS Partnership

admin — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:10:35 +0000

We’re happy to announce a new partnership with Red Hat, which will deliver new and exciting projects to help corporate IT teams to implement open source strategies across their environments and save money with those more efficient choices. The partnership wants to join the experience and expertise from Red Hat and the Open Source eyeOS ...Read the Rest

Demystifying Akonadi

admin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:05:09 +0000

I’m sure many of you haven’t heard the name Akonadi yet, so let me quickly explain what it is. Let’s get technical. Akonadi is a groupware cache that runs on the local machine, a shared data store for all your personal informatio. Akonadi offers a unified API to receive and synchronise data with groupware, email ...Read the Rest

A Quick Guide to… AMOLED

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:34:02 +0000

You may have noticed the word AMOLED appearing in descriptions of new mobile phones, such as the forthcoming Nokia N8. But what is this new technology, what problems does it help to solve and why is it a desirable thing to have? Here’s our quick five-minute guide to what AMOLED is and why you might ...Read the Rest

University Publishes Braille Extension for OpenOffice

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:39:41 +0000

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium published odt2braille, a Braille extension to OpenOffice, a open source suite of office productivity tools, earlier this month. Odt2braille will enable authors to print documents to a Braille embosser, a printer publishing text as Braille, and to export documents as Braille files. The Braille output is well-formatted and highly ...Read the Rest

Municipality of Modena Removing Vendor Dependency Office Tools

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:37:16 +0000

The Italian municipality of Modena is well on its way to become independent from a major IT vendor for its office productivity tools, reports Laura Seidenari, instructor at the city’s IT department. The city council of Modena has installed OpenOffice on about 1500 of its 1600 workstations. The city started replacing the proprietary office tools ...Read the Rest

Build Your Own Database-powered Application on bada

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:29:07 +0000

Thinking of making a database powered application on bada to gear up your business? Here’s 1 way how you can go about it. Samsung bada internally uses SQLite, which is a compact, efficient, reliable, and embeddable SQL database engine. To begin your database based application, you need to include the ‘FIo’ library. The Io namespace ...Read the Rest

Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:17:45 +0000

It looks like Apple, Inc., is exploring a new business opportunity: spyware and what we’re calling “traitorware.” While users were celebrating the new jailbreaking and unlocking exemptions, Apple was quietly preparing to apply for a patent on technology that, among other things, would allow Apple to identify and punish users who take advantage of those ...Read the Rest

Using Bluetooth in bada

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:42:06 +0000

Bluetooth is the most commonly used peer-to-peer communication medium for smartphones and PCs. To use Bluetooth, the device must be compatible with certain Bluetooth profiles. A Bluetooth profile is a wireless interface specification that defines the possible applications and uses of the Bluetooth technology. The Bluetooth features in bada include: General Access Profile (GAP) support ...Read the Rest

Security Researcher Arrested for Refusing to Disclose Anonymous Source

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:15:55 +0000

An Indian computer scientist was arrested this weekend when he refused to disclose an anonymous source who provided an electronic voting machine to a team of security researchers. Hari Prasad is the managing director of Netindia Ltd., an Indian research and development firm. He and other researchers have long questioned the security of India’s paperless ...Read the Rest